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Download full textPritchett, Beverly – 1979
This continuing ERIC/CAPS series, entitled Searchlight Plus, consists of two components: first, an in-depth review of cited materials, including prime issues and trends, and implications for helping professionals; and, second, citations from an ERIC computer search on the topic. Series topics are selected in response to user requests. Presented in…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Educational Testing, Evaluation Methods, Guidance
Stansfield, Charles; Rivera, Charlene – 2001
This digest presents an overview of accommodations for students of limited English proficiency (LEP) and an overview of inclusion practices on statewide assessments, with emphasis on the accommodation known as linguistic simplification. The inclusion of LEP students in statewide testing programs over the last decade has been uneven. In the…
Descriptors: Academic Accommodations (Disabilities), Educational Testing, Elementary Secondary Education, Inclusive Schools
Stevens, Floraline I. – 1984
An urban school district affected by testing in the effective schools context is described in order to provide examples of the effects of testing on teaching and the curriculum. The report describes the method of operationalizing the effective schools research using test information. An important catalyst to improving the instructional program was…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Criterion Referenced Tests, Curriculum Development, Educational Testing
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Direct linkPalmer, Jim – New Directions for Community Colleges, 1987
Offers a review of ERIC documents providing descriptions of testing programs and evaluations of student assessment programs, as well as materials focusing on assessment validity, state testing initiatives, and cohort testing. (DMM)
Descriptors: Cohort Analysis, Community Colleges, Educational Testing, Program Evaluation
Higgins, Jon L., Comp.; And Others – 1979
This report was compiled to serve as a reference on assessments of achievement in pre-college mathematics. Patterns of mathematical assessments are discussed in terms of the history and nature of assessments of achievement, the relationship between assessment and minimum competency testing, and the current status of state assessment programs.…
Descriptors: Achievement, Achievement Tests, Educational Assessment, Educational Testing
Bray, Dorothy, Ed.; Belcher, Marcia J., Ed. – New Directions for Community Colleges, 1987
Three aspects of student assessment are addressed in this collection of essays: accountability issues and the political tensions that they reflect; assessment practices, the use and misuse of testing, and emerging directions; and the impact of assessment. The collection includes: (1) "Expansion, Quality, and Testing in American…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Community Colleges, Computer Assisted Testing, Educational Technology
Williams, Warren S.; Beard, Joseph W. – 1983
This review of literature from the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) database is the second volume on the topic of testing and assessment for the counseling professional; the first volume was published in 1979. The sections on minimum competency tests identify issues of current interest, e.g., the basic issue of definition; the…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Basic Skills, Criterion Referenced Tests, Educational Assessment
